Handmaid's Tale

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: Video

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Format: NTSC, Import
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.2 x 1.1

UPC: 027616862747
EAN: 0027616862747
ASIN: B00005AUJV

Release Date: June 5, 2001
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days

Editorial Reviews:

From Amazon.com
Set in a time when a buildup of toxic chemicals has made most people sterile, Volker Schlondorff's film offers a disturbing view of a society under martial law in which fertile women are captured and made into handmaids to bear children for rich and infertile matrons. The film unfolds from the eyes of newly converted handmaid Kate (Natasha Richardson). She is trapped in this mysogynistic society which both deifies these fertile women as prized possessions and condemns them as whores. Throughout the story Kate has to cope with the jealousy of the woman she serves (Faye Dunaway), the advances of her sleazy military husband (the Commander, played by Robert Duvall), and the loss of her daughter, who has been shuttled off to a similarly aristocratic setting. She also falls in love with one of the Commander's security guards (Aidan Quinn), who sympathizes with her plight and potentially offers her a way out. Throughout The Handmaid's Tale, issues of feminism, abortion rights, male dominance, and conservative religious politics all come under fire. Some may view the film itself as antifemale considering its concepts, but it is quite the opposite. Instead it shows how only through solidarity can women bring down an overriding patriarchical mindset. The film, which works from Harold Pinter's screenplay adaption of Margaret Atwood's novel, features strong performances from those mentioned as well as Elizabeth McGovern and Victoria Tennant. --Bryan Reesman

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